It's hard to think of anything more heinous than bogus cancer cures. Yet there is no lack of Internet sites that promise to cure, for a price, any cancer with an elixir, concoction of herbs or systematized program of thinking good thoughts.

More than 100 government and university studies have found the chemical Bisphenol-A to be harmful even at low levels. On September 16, the FDA did something completely expected: it

In San Ramon, in Costa Rica's Alajuela province, a team of 11 experts collected 50 plants in the Alberto Manuel Brenes Reserve (RAMB), and found than some could provide a cure against Malaria

Caleb Jensen, 15, died May 2, 2007, from a staphylococcus infection, which Colorado prosecutors contend went untreated despite glaring symptoms. He spent the last week of his life lying in his own urine & feces, in a remote field camp operated by AYA

Compassion & Choices protests draft regulations circulating within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services that would allow health care workers to deny treatment based on their religious or moral beliefs.

This summer, an outbreak of typhus has left 16 Travis County residents with the flea-borne illness; 14 others are suspected of having the disease. In recent years, whooping cough and West Nile virus have also plagued Central Texas.

Police say a man tried to cut off his own arm at a restaurant in Modesto, Calif., because he thought he had injected air into a vein while shooting cocaine and feared he would die unless he took drastic action.Authorities say 33-year-old Michael Lasiter

A SYDNEY doctor who performed surgery without an anaesthetic and abused and threatened patients was struck off the medical practitioners list yesterday.

Argentine authorities are exploring a possible link between the deaths of 14 children and an experimental vaccine they were taking in a clinical trial run by GlaxoSmithKline.

Doctors have released pictures of the first man to have a double arm transplant. The German man who was not named for legal reasons made medical history by having two complete arms transplanted